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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.
Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.
Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.
Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.
Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.
If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
You're only human.
Let's break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
